OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Di Paola Trust

ActiveCharity number SC046844
Registered13 September 2016
Main locationRenfrewshire
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC046844
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Overseas only
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G76 7AE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Financial assistance for the educational needs of underprivileged children in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Colombia, support of a medical dispensary in Kitale (Kenya) and ad hoc donations meeting the Di Paola Trust's criteria. All donations are targeted to specific Catholic institutions such as the Jesuit Development Office in Zimbabwe, St Stephen's School (Turkana, Kenya) and Dispensary (Kitale) both administered by the Nazareth Sisters of the Annunciation, and Let the Children Live in Colombia set up by Fr Peter Walters. Ad hoc donations are made (subject to reserves) through Jesuit Missions London and/or directly to individual persons/institutions.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

1. The Trustees shall hold and apply the sum of £1 paid by us to them, and such other funds and assets as may from time to time be comprised in the Trust Property, in trust for the following purposes:- (a) The advancement of education (primary, secondary and tertiary) by financing the education of children in Zimbabwe or elsewhere, principally but not exclusively those who are orphaned because their parents died of AIDS (b) The prevention or relief of poverty by financing aid programmes involving adults or children in Zimbabwe or elsewhere brought to the notice of the Trustees by the Jesuit priest(s) or other officials of the Catholic Church administering the Trust's disbursed funds.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2026£0£00Not supplied
5 April 2025£5,503£10,481015 August 2025
5 April 2024£6,966£9,65004 July 2024
5 April 2023£29,112£29,84005 October 2023
5 April 2022£12,509£11,00003 July 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
6 Carolside Avenue, Clarkston
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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